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She scrutinises her canvas on the easel and wonders how to connect the right window to the left hedge in her painting. How can she break the empty foreground?

Isle of Skye summer holiday house
Scale: 1 centimetre = 1 metre

With a canvas 60 cm wide and a point of view 35 cm from the canvas, the field of view spans from the window to the hedge

due west wind from the east
red geraniums spilling from urn
escallonia hedge
lawn
pampas grass
elm tree
apple orchard
pear orchard
kitchen table with legs in the air

a. the window
b. red-hot poker plants
c. jacmanna
d. purple passion flowers
e. anemones
f. artichoke bed
g. strawberry bed
h. herbs
i. raspberry bed
j. poppies
k. dahlias
l. mesembryanthemums
m. grapes in greenhouses
n. greenhouse entrance
o. love corner
p. coffee garden
q. tennis lawn
r. house entrance